The modular phone dream has always been about upgrading modules to improve a device, and to keep it from becoming outdated. The Fairphone 2 is one of the few modular phones you can actually buy, and ...

When you buy a handset from Amsterdam-based Fairphone, you're not buying just another smartphone: you're buying into ethical manufacturing, and supporting a company that ploughs money back into ...

The Fairphone 3+, as you might guess, isn’t substantially different to its immediate predecessor. It uses 40 percent recycled plastics in its case, compared to the nine percent found in the Fairphone ...

When Dutch smartphone maker Fairphone introduced the Fairphone 3 last year, the social enterprise company described it as a modular phone built using ethically-sourced materials. Up until now that ...

Last July, Fairphone gave its early adopters some bad news. The first gen Fairphone could no longer be supported because of the logistics and costs of discontinued replacement parts. To reassure its ...

A few weeks ago, I found myself in need of a repair for a borked camera lens on my iPhone 11. I do everything in my power to essentially encase my Apple products in bubble wrap, but a nearly ...

Owners of the Fairphone 2 have a significant improvement in camera quality to look forward to. Unfortunately, the phone is still only being sold in Europe. BERLIN—Fairphone is the only company to ever ...

Last year, repair guide site iFixit tore down the Fairphone 3 and gave the modular-designed phone a rare perfect 10/10 repairability score. Today, Fairphone demonstrated just how far its philosophy of ...

Over the past few years modular smartphones have kind of become a real thing. Google may have killed Project Ara, but Motorola’s Moto Z phones can learn new tricks when you slap a module on the back ...

Fairphone has today launched an updated Fairphone 3, with its new Fairphone 3 Plus, and moved both phones up to Android 10. The new 3 Plus gets an update to both cameras on the front and back: out ...

is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. Fairphone, the sustainable smartphone manufacturer that tries ...

Google has ploughed millions of dollars into creating what it believes is the future of electronics: Modularity. Through Project Ara, the tech giant has set out on a mission to transform the most ...